Hornbeck compares Rachel and Sleeping Beauty to tell her to wake up and smell the roses; that people are becoming more excepting of new ideas; in this case it is the debt on evolution vs. creationism. Although Hornbeck doesn’t actually state those exact words, he does hint it by saying that “there's a highway through the backwoods now, and the trees of the forest have reluctantly made room for their leafless cousins, the telephone poles.” This quote by Hornbeck is telling the reader that people who have what is considered “normal” (trees) beliefs are becoming more willing to except people with “different” (telephone poles) beliefs. In this excerpt Hornbeck is also foreshadowing that Brady’s fame will soon be no more by saying that “The Yesterday-Messiah, standing in the road alone in a cloud of flivver dust.”
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